LEGAL WORK
CHANGING TENOR OF LAW Addressing the City of London Solicitors’ Company, Lord Macmillan said that what struck them more than anything else in these clays was the almost unconscious change which was coming over the whole nature of their legal work. The whole tenor of legislation was changing. Formerly the law devoted itself more or less to principles sufficiently well defined in case law, but now the Legislature was using the Statute Book for an entirely different, purpose. It was now not so much concerned with the principles and codification of the law, hut was using it as a vehicle of social and economic reforms. The business 1 of tho lawyer was becoming more and more the interpretation of that great mass of legislation. In 12 years from 1910 to 1930 no fewer than 732 Acts of Parliament were passed. Tha't vast output of statute law was truly a menace. Many Acts did not meet with the approbation of the people, and so long as they had legislation on tlie Statute Book which they did not intend to enforce they were doing grave injury to the body politic.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 7
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190LEGAL WORK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 7
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